C.B. Dollaway officially shrugged off his old ways by submitting Joe Doerksen.

Dollaway, an All-American wrestler at Arizona State University, once believed that his native art would triumph over all inside the octagon. Then he got submitted, twice, by Amir Sadollah in his first shot at the limelight on “The Ultimate Fighter 7.”

He’s now a part of the well-rounded faithful when it comes to the skills he needs to be successful in MMA.

Dollaway (11-2 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Munoz (9-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) meet next Thursday at “UFC on Versus 3: Sanchez vs. Kampmann,” which takes place at KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. The main card, including a Diego Sanchez and Martin Kampmann headliner, airs live on Versus.

Dollaway said the loss to Sadollah – first on the reality show’s semifinals and then at its live finale – was the best thing that could have happened to him. It provided a catalyst to learning.

“I had to get a out of the wrestler mentality,” Dollaway said today during a media call in support of the event. “When I first started fighting, I just thought … that I would be able to go in, take guys down, and not have to worry about other parts of my game as much. I kind of skipped over the jiu-jitsu side of things.”

It didn’t take long for him to get the submission ball rolling. In his very next fight, Dollaway tapped fellow “TUF 7″ cast member Jesse Taylor with the rarely seen Peruvian necktie.

Of course, the ball didn’t always roll his way. After pounding out Mike Massenzio at UFC 92, he was choked unconscious by Tom Lawlor at UFC 100. It was back to the drawing board. Or in this case, back to the mat.

Wrestling helped Dollaway bounce back against two heavy-handed strikers in Jay Silva and Goran Reljic. But his victory at UFC 119 over Doerksen, a dyed-in-the-wool jiu-jitsu stylist with 33 wins by submission, sealed his status as a legitimate threat on the ground. Dollaway tapped the Canadian in a manner befitting his nickname, “The Doberman”; once he got ahold of the neck, he never let go.

The first-round victory put a $70,000 “Submission of the Night” bonus check in his pocket.

“It was huge,” he said. “Sometimes … you’re like, ‘My game’s getting good,’ but you don’t know how good until you do something like that. It’s a payoff for all the hard work you put in. It makes you open your eyes and believe in yourself and know that you can finish guys on the ground. You can be a threat there as well.”

His opponent upcoming opponent has undergone a few transformations of his own. Munoz quickly jumped into MMA after a decorated career as an amateur wrestler at Oklahoma State University and soon was fighting in major promotions. But a bad knockout loss to Matt Hamill at UFC 96 taught him that he had a long way to go in the striking department, and he diligently worked to bring those skills up to the level of his wrestling.

Munoz hasn’t always been successful in his journey. But he’s on the same one as Dollaway in becoming a complete mixed martial artist. That’s caught Dollaway’s eye.

“When he came in, he was thrown right into the deep end fighting tough fights right out of the gate, and he found a way to win even though he wasn’t the most well-rounded fighter when he came in,” Dollaway said. “But over the last few fights, you’ve definitely seen a progression.”

The question now is who’s further ahead. The former wrestlers will figure that out next Thursday.

Dollaway’s journey is still in progress.

“I have to get better – I have to evolve with MMA,” he said. “It’s no longer wrestlers can just go in and pound on everybody. You have to learn everything, and you have to be well-rounded.”

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